... "It is well known that Saint-Simon asserted that France would have suffered infinitely less damage from the sudden death of a thousand of its highest officials or members of the royal family than from the death of a thousand of its best workers—an assertion for which he was accused" (p. 11 in Emil Kaler. "Wilhelm Weitling," Zurich, 1887, No. XI of the "Social-Democratic Library").

According to the Brockhaus Encyclopedic Dictionary, German edition, Saint-Simon said this not of 1,000 but of 10,000 (NB)—said it in the "Political Parable," the first issue of *The Organizer* (1820).

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